The Future Technologies Thread!

[King C]

Me and a few mates were joking around about getting stabbed with usb sticks with viruses on, causing our bodies to spazz out/shut down.

I can see paper and wires becoming obsolete at some point.

[Krisboats]

I think, some recent developments have been made in the production of CNTs allowing them to produce them on a much larger scale at a much lower cost. I know they've been developing CNT fabric as an alternative to kevlar stab and ballistic protection vests. A hell of a lot more effective from initial tests.

Those dragon scale vests look pretty good from what i saw the other day.

3d tv's are already here, I want holographic though as thats the next logical step!

[Rusevelt]

Any official release date for USB 3.0?

[ZeroMatt]

Been out for ages.

[MikeCottTrials]

Just raising the teleportation thing (even though it's a bit sci fi).

Has anyone had the thought, and I find this quite worrying, that what ever you teleport could just be an exact duplicate of what you tried to send? So the successful teleportation of the light particles was just a copy of the original, and the original just got torn apart, reduced to particles.

If this is correct, then a teleportation of a human would just be an exact copy, and the original you would cease to be. However in this scenario your copy wouldn't know it was a copy and wouldn't see a problem with teleporting.

So you would be no more, but your teleported clone would continue to go about your life.

[JT!]

You need to watch 'the 6th day'.

That's pretty much how it would be done.

[Matt Burrows]

A couple of videos on the future of cars. First one is about GMs work on hydrogen fuel cells. The second is about a new electric car concept which sounds like a simple solution to many issues

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/reinventing_the_car.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

[MikeCottTrials]

You need to watch 'the 6th day'.

That's pretty much how it would be done.

JT I get the feeling you're not taking my developing phobia as seriously as I think it needs to be taken!

[MikeCottTrials]

A couple of videos on the future of cars. First one is about GMs work on hydrogen fuel cells. The second is about a new electric car concept which sounds like a simple solution to many issues

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/reinventing_the_car.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/shai_agassi_on_electric_cars.html

Wow that electric car idea is so simple, yet it sounds brilliant!

I wish I was paying 2 cents a mile right now

[Rusevelt]

You need to watch 'the 6th day'.

That's pretty much how it would be done.

Or watch 'The Prestige' with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, and Micheal Caine.

As for the S.Agassi talk on electric cars, surely the oil companies and maybe even the world governments already know all about future green tech, but just they just choose to keep those projects shelved from the general public consciousness because it put them out of business.

[Muel]

Any official release date for USB 3.0?

First products were released in January.

[JT!]

Or watch 'The Prestige' with Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, and Micheal Caine.

As for the S.Agassi talk on electric cars, surely the oil companies and maybe even the world governments already know all about future green tech, but just they just choose to keep those projects shelved from the general public consciousness because it put them out of business.

I did, twice. Understood what was going on the 2nd time.

With regards to 'green tech' it actually costs more than you're saving at the moment. For example a energy saving 'heat as you use' boiler costs you a lot more over it's lifetime than a regular heater would even when you factor in how much money your saving on the saved water. When these green technologies will actually save you money (inc initial costs) then that's when technology will take off in all areas.

Going back to teleporting, it's much easier to kill a human in location X and cloning a human at location Y compared to bending the universe or having some kind of portal gun, however we won't see anything like that for thousands of years so we don't need to worry about it.

[Rusevelt]

Was at my local Tandy store and noticed the Aiptek 3D hd camcorder. Need glasses to view the 3D playback.

[Ryan Trott]

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[NVWOCI WVS]

Do you realise ow difficult it is to make graphine?

[Ryan Trott]

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[Shaun H]

It would make carbon fibre even more amazing but, even better, more isotropic! (CFRP analysis is the current bane of my life )

[JT!]

Was at my local Tandy store and noticed the Aiptek 3D hd camcorder. Need glasses to view the 3D playback.

What I find funny about all these people buying up 3d stuff is that in a couple more years (if that) we're going to have 3d tvs that don't require glasses at all, rendering that old tech pretty useless.

[MikeCottTrials]

What I find funny about all these people buying up 3d stuff is that in a couple more years (if that) we're going to have 3d tvs that don't require glasses at all, rendering that old tech pretty useless.

How's that going to work then? Are we talking dual screens?

[Ryan Trott]

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[MadManMike]

To be fair, "Non-glasses" 3D isn't just the next generation, it's a whole new tech.

Fair enough not hanging around for the next level of HD resolution, but this will be totally different to the current 3D stuff.

[ellingtj]

How's that going to work then? Are we talking dual screens?

Angled pixels(one set for one eye, another for the other) - creates issues with the view angle though, work is being done so the set knows where you are in the room, hence optimising the orientation of the pixels - alright for single viewer or if everyone huddles together. I like 3d tv and will buy one when I decide which one I like the best - I don't mind the glasses.

[JT!]

I think we're not far away from no glasses 3d tvs, all they have to do really is stick a couple of cams on the tv so it can track your faces and it's good to go. There's a new hand held gaming deceive ( I think it's from Nintendo) that offers no glasses 3d too.

[Revolver]

I think we're not far away from no glasses 3d tvs, all they have to do really is stick a couple of cams on the tv so it can track your faces and it's good to go. There's a new hand held gaming deceive ( I think it's from Nintendo) that offers no glasses 3d too.

Yeah, but it's not what you're expecting.

From what I understand, when you move the DS around, it uses parallax to make it look like shit's 3D and moving around. So rather than a true 3D display, it simply monitors the position of the doohickey and fiddles with the position of layers to suit.

[Krisboats]

I think we're not far away from no glasses 3d tvs, all they have to do really is stick a couple of cams on the tv so it can track your faces and it's good to go. There's a new hand held gaming deceive ( I think it's from Nintendo) that offers no glasses 3d too.

They've already been made and launched to market, but the technology isn't perfect. There is a pretty narrow 'sweetspot' directly in front of the tv that works well, but to the sides are not as good and when the viewer moves their head the effect becomes somewhat distorted which can be very distracting. That and the fact the tech is too new to be effectively integrated to larger sets commercial units are currently limited to 20" and talking about a 32" screen in the near future. The other issue is you have to sit fairly close to it for it to work.